Re: Spreading misinformation

[steveb@newkla.kla.com (Steven Buchholz)]

Mike Speirs provides correction to something yours truly said previously ...
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> Misinformation correction: You will *not* dump oil out of the engine of
> the 5k when the filler cap is removed.  There is a cover over the cam that
> keeps the cam from spraying oil through the open hole.  The worst thing
> that should happen would be the venting of oil fumes.

Au Contraire!!!  Maybe all turbo's have the shield, but not all 5000's do!  My
'84 has zero shield, you take the oil filler cap off & you're starin' at the
camshaft lobes!

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... thanks Mike, if I would have thought about my own '83 I would have 
realized that too.  I know that at some point all VWs and Audis had such
a cover installed ... I bought one for my '78 Fox.  I don't think it 
matters whether or not the car is turbocharged.  It sounds like the 
cam cover started somewhere around '85 or '86.

I guess the correct statement would be ... If you can't see your cam when 
the filler cap is removed then there is little risk with leaving the cap 
off for the purposes of a test.  

Profuse apologies!
Steve Buchholz
s_buchho@kla.com
San Jose, CA (USA)